much public attention recently. In particular, concern with the composition of the teacher force has been prominent … relationships between academic ability, earnings, and the decision to become a teacher through analysis of data from a national …, increases in teacher earnings would yield substantial growth in the size of the teaching force but minimal improvement in the …

Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning …. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job … height. We find the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading …

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption … on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the … nonparametric approach in practice using two separate large-scale administrative data sets, we find the estimated teacher value …

, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This … paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an … overview of what is known about the relationship between teacher quality and student achievement. This provides the basis for …

. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …. When this data is used to see which teachers transfer, it is unclear the extent to which the patterns are driven by teacher …-to-transfer data to examine separately which teachers apply for transfer and which get hired and, in so doing, differentiates teacher …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when … the own-teacher effect, results that suggest peer learning …